Best Movie Trilogy Ever?

[THUNDER HANDS]

If you include all three films and rank them together.

Note, I'm including Lord of the Rings because I'm sure most of you have read the book and know what's gonna happen in the movie and can probably imagine how good it's gonna be.

I'm also including the Matrix, so I guess we can just guess that the third film is gonna be good too.

:)

[darknemus]

1. Hate to say it..

But you really just can't top Star Wars. Especially if you factor in the effect these trilogies have had on pop culture. The Star Wars franchise truly is a step above anything else out there. I highly doubt its overall financial &, more importantly, social impact can ever be repeated. Past, present, or future.

LOTR is a GREAT film series, btw - so its not like I'm some Star Wars Geek - Its just, with SW, it had as much to do with the time frame of the original releases as it does the content of the films. Hard to repeat that. (re: look at the 'new' trilogy - a pale shadow of its former version)

-darknemus

[Robb]

2. I mean, come ON people!

When someone says "We're going to watch The Trilogy tonight", don't you just assume they mean the Star Wars trilogy? :)

[WoodrowFan]

22. No

I thought they meant "Teen Lesbian Cheerleaders Go Hitchhiking" parts 1-3. Nothing like the books tho. :spank:

[qwertyMike]

33. I never GOT the Star Wars thing

I was travelling in Europe/Asia when the first one came out and when i got back everyone was raving about "The Force" or something. I guess you had to be there. I've watched it since with my son, but NADA
Sorry
The Good/Evil thing is older than the Bible

[ixion]

3. technically, Star Wars isn't a trilogy

Nine books, six movies.

just sayin' ;-)

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. prequels don't count

So technically, Star Wars is two seperate trilogies.

:)

[Robb]

9. Then we can disqualify LOTR too...

Everyone likes to pretend the Hobbit cartoon didn't happen... ;)

Where there's a whip -- (hee yaa!!) -- There's a way....!

[Az]

7. Its just JarJar denial

Diehard SW fans do not acknowledge Anything with JarJar in it. I mean come on, the fans were getting cranky over the Ewoks. JarJar was too much for anyone.


Luke...meesa is your father. - Darth JarJar

[LynneSin]

4. I'd almost pick Godfather, but the horrors of Godfather III....

brings the other 2 down.

[Guaranteed]

12. Yeah, but the other two

are in the top five movies of all time, if not the top three! II is the BEST movie ever MADE, many people say!

But, you're right, III sucked bad. It's too bad, too, because it was supposed to be the moral part of the trilogy. And they flubbed it.

[LynneSin]

21. That whole move sucked because of casting

I saw GodfatherIII in the opening weekend. When Mary Corleone died at the end of the movie (the role was played by Sophia Coppola), the entire audience stood up and cheered.

I think the general outline of GIII was excellent, but that forced love story between 1st cousins (only half related) just totally sucked. And why did Vinnie Corleone half to be from Sonny's illicit affair (except to make the love story just a little bit less unqueasy). Why couldn't it have been one of Sonny's kids from his marriage or better yet - one of Connie's kids from her first marriage (think of the irony - Michael Corleone order the kill on Carlo Rizzi, Connie's husband, in the first movie because Carlo help setup Sonny's murder on the LI Expressway).

If only I had directed that movie (or at least written the script)

[joeybee12]

5. Return of the Jedi is one of the worst movies ever!

Star Wars can't win because of that. Episode One was even worse than Jedi

LOTR without a doubt.

The second Indiana Jones was putrid--it might have won if that one didn't stink so bad.

[Walt Starr]

8. LotR, hands down. No movie trilogy will EVER exceed it

It blows Lucasfilms out of the water and the third Godfather movie was so crappy that there is no way it should even be mentioned in the same breath as LotR.

Of course, I've been a LotR fan since the tender young age of eleven and have been waiting for a live action movie my enitre life, so I could have a biased opinion.

:evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

10. Can't vote for this one yet...

As the 3rd movie has yet to be released.... but it's about 2 months and 2 days away... not that I'm keeping track or anything....

[Guaranteed]

13. I fell asleep during the first LOTR

And, I swear, if I had heard the phrase "...the power of my people..." one more frickin' time I was gonna puke.
That movie was some of the corniest crap ever. The second one was better, though.

[joeybee12]

14. My opinion is reverse--first great, second so-so

We'll see how the third is.

[Stupdworld]

11. what, no "American Ninja"

supwitdat

[Guaranteed]

15. AND no Meatballs.

It's an outrage.

[THUNDER HANDS]

18. Aren't there more than 3 Meatballs movies?

I think there's like, five or six of them aren't there?

[Guaranteed]

25. Yeah...

...but those were the "bad" ones. They don't count. LOL

[TacticalPeek]

16. The World of Apu - Satyajit Ray

Pather Panchali http://imdb.com/title/tt0048473/

Aparajito http://imdb.com/title/tt0048956/

Apur Sansar http://imdb.com/title/tt0052572/

:)

[HEyHEY]

17. The first three Star wars rule

I can't believe that Special effects laden pumped up piece of shit LOTR is beating them

[outdoor_News]

28. star wars

star wars

[qb]

19. Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead

runner up: Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, although I thought Raimi went overboard in Army of Darkness.

Okay, so I'm a horror fanatic. I don't get into mainstream movies so much.

[jus_the_facts]

42. Ya forgot......RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD......

......NOW THAT WAS HILARIOUS...."...it's the half dogs..kill it...kill it!!!" :D

[corarose]

20. Dark Shadows, House Of Dark Shadows & Collinsville

:kick:

[Khephra]

23. EVIL DEAD!

Dead by Dawn! Dead by Dawn!

[tom_paine]

27. "Who wants some? YOU! You want a little? HUH?"

"Little goody TWO shoes! Little goody TWO shoes!"

If it ain't the greatest it damned sure is close, kef!

[TXlib]

40. Alright you primitive screwheads, this is my BOOMSTICK!

[Kamika]

30. hehe yeah!!

ALtough evil dead1 is technicly same as 2 just crappier.

2 and army of darkness owns

[pnb]

35. That's the one I was looking for...

Really should have been on the original list!!

[Cat Atomic]

24. LoTR. Their translation of Tolkien's work from book to film is

nothing short of outstanding. I never would've thought a faithful interpretation could survive a trip to the screen, but this one does.

I was rereading The Hobbit a few days ago. Tolkien's descriptions of Bilbo's house were slavishly followed by the set designers- it's really incredible. And that sort of attention to detail is just scattered all through the films.

And when they do take liberties with Tolkiens narrative, props, sets, characters, etc., it's almost always an improvement. Vigo Mortensen's portrayal of Aragorn as a sort of conflicted hero is much more interesting than the character in the book, IMHO.

NOW I WANT PETER JACKSON TO DO A DUNE TRILOGY!!!

[outdoor_News]

29. LOTR

gotta love the hobbits and the struggle against evil.

[Cocoa]

26. Colors trilogy

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Blue/White/Red. "Blue" is one of my favorite movies ever.

[Ivory_Tower]

36. Bingo!

My choice too, with the Godfather a close second (Godfather was only good, not great, so that's bumped it down for me).

[youngred]

31. Who the hell voted for Jurassic Park?

The first one was great, the next two were completely unwatchable.

[qwertyMike]

32. SCREAM

And Rocky. The first FIVE of the trilogy especially!
;)

[denverbill]

34. John Ford's westerns.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Fort Apache
My Darling Clementine

[Kolesar]

37. Ma and Pa Kettle

[mitchum]

38. Still picked The Godfather Trilogy, even though III is godawful

[geniph]

39. What, no Francis the Talking Mule?

just kidding - LOTR is my pick as well. Peter Jackson is now my personal hero. It's almost completely erased the memory of that Bakshi abomination.

I do have to give a shout-out to the three great Marx Brothers movies, even if they aren't really a trilogy per se: Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup.

[jus_the_facts]

41. Whaaaaa.......Terminator 1..2...3 ain't on the list?????

:evilgrin:

[retread]

43. The Apu Trilogy

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